EZGLOBE - easily plot a rotatable globe (Mapping Toolbox 2.x)

Draws a globe with coastal and political boundaries for use with Mapping Toolbox 2.x

Description

Mapping Toolbox versions 2 (and later) have not supplied political boundary information as former versions did. This function easily creates a simple globe with boundaries drawn in, upon which you can then plot geographical data using the Mapping Toolbox. All you have to do to create your globe is type is "ezglobe" at the command line.

You need Java and the Mapping Toolbox (version 2 or later) to use this function. Tested but no warranty; use at your own risk.

• Required Products: Mapping Toolbox
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)

[Ki tak Ahn]

I got an error msg "Undefined command/function 'typecast'".
Is it a saperated function ?

[The Author]

"typecast" is a Matlab function available in version 7.1 and later. I used it in the lossless data compression routine, which reduces the file size to a manageable level. I suggest that the easiest solution would probably be to upgrade to version 7.1 or later.

[I. Oldenburg]

Hi,
I got the following error:

??? Error using ==> mapformats\private\openShapeFiles>checkSHP
Failed to open both landareas.shp and landareas.SHP.

Error in ==> mapformats\private\openShapeFiles at 19
[basename, ext] = checkSHP(basename,shapeExtensionProvided);

Error in ==> shaperead at 200
[shpFileId, shxFileId, dbfFileId, headerTypeCode] ...

Error in ==> ezglobe at 24
s=shaperead('landareas.SHP','UseGeoCoords',true);

Can you please help me to solve my problem.

Thanks, I.O.

[The Author]

This function works with Matlab 7.1 and Mapping Toolbox 2.x. Try typing "ver" at the prompt and *email me* the result. Thanks.

[Juliana Binder]

 

[Joachim]